The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-12-01
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
PERSoNs AND THINGS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CAROLINA

schuneIs Exchanges, AID Boiled ID DSWn |
for Its Busy Readers.
Old State bonds to the amount of |
SIS, 400 were burned at the State |
treasury last week.
A builders supply company was
organized last week in Durham with |
a capital stock of 100000.
statesville cotton factory movement
boometh. Over $4,000 have been
subscribed and the factory is assured.
The latest railroad boonlet is re-
vived by Col. w. J. Green, who pro-
poses road from Fay etteville to
Salisbury.
Don't forget the Siler City Fair to-
morrow. Hon. A. M. Waddell will
deliver brilliant address. He al
ways does.
A fire at Hickory last week destroy
ed the Central and Western hotels
and twelve other houses, including
two stores.
Mr.. E. c. Hackney, editor of the
Durham Recorder has purchased ma
terials for Tobacco and Manufact-
urer's journal.
1t is believed that over one-half of
the 10000 muskets surrendered by
Gen. Lee at Appomattox were borne
by North Carolinians.
Northern hunters are hunting birds
in many portions Of the State. Among
the shooters at Raleigh is Ex-Governor
Groom, of Maryland.
The Durham q Henderson Rail
road i. progressing. -Four miles have
been graded on the Durham end and
between two and three near Hender-
son.
An exchange says that there are
one hundred Baptist churches in
North Carolina without pastors, and
two hundred ordained ministers with
out pastorates.
Who can beat it IS. ]. Conell, of
Clear Greek township, Mecklenburg
county, made this year on his farm,
with two horses, 760 bushels Of corn
and 20 bales of cotton.
Senator Vance, who is rapidly re-
covering from injuries received while
driving in the North Carolina noun
tains, expects to be able to go to
Washington in few days.
The Fayetteville Fair was a sue
cess. The officers, after paying off all
expenses, premiums and old debt have
yet a nice little balance to their credit
to commence another year.
Two immense tobacco stemmeries
will soon be established in Oxford
one for tobacco for foreign shipment,
and the other for one of the largest
cigarette factories in New York
AS it has been definitely decided to
hold the next Teachers Assembly at
Morehead, large auditorium will be
erected in which to hold the assembly
meetings. Work will commence this
week.
From the New York Herald Of the
18th, we learn that Mr.. James G.
blaine, of Maine, and Mr. Richmond
Pearson, of North Carolina are stop
ping at the Hotel Chatham, Paris,
France. -AsheviUe Citizen.
The Asheville Ice Company, capt.
tai stock $4,000, has been organized
to build lotion factory and has con
tracted for machinery. j. 2. Sawyer
is president, J. G. Martin vice presi-
deet, and E. J. Holmes secretary and
treasurer.
". T. Bailey, the Statesville for
ger, was sentenced by Judge Clark to
ten years Imprisonment, at hard labor
in the penitentiary. He has tab en-
an appeal and pending the sitting of
the Supreme Court, is released ON a
bond of $780,
A Mr.. Brady, Of this county, while
digging we'll in his yard struck
very rich vein of gold. Mr.. w. K
Jackson, Of Prosperity, had the ore
examined by an expert and immed-
lately purchased the well and the land
around about by paying $25,000. 1t
is said to be a regular bonanza.-San-
ford Espress.
In one month Durham had q circus,
the Baptist State convention, the lay
ing of a court house corner stone with
Masonic ceremonies, two sudden
deaths, two fatal accidents, and one
attempt at suicide. This is not all.
Her population was increased by
score of native born infants, fifty or
more immigrants, one horned rooster
and two white 'possums.
1t is currently reported in railroad
circles that Mr.. G. r. Talcott, super
intendent of the G. G. & A. road, is to
succeed Mr.. V. E. McBee as superin-
tendent of the Western North Caro-
lima road, who resigns from the COM
pany to accept similar position with
the three C's company. Mr.. Joe
Green, report also says, is to take the
position, vacated by Mr.. Talcott.
The Baptist State Convention was
in session al Durham five days, and
from the grocers and butchers we esti-
mate what it took to feed it. Thirty
steers at an average weight of 300
pounds, one hundred barrels of flour,
fifty bushels of meal, one hundred tur
keys, one thousand chickens, one hum
dred and fifty gallons of oysters, one
thousand pounds of butter, two hun
dred pounds of mince meat, fifty geese
sixty or seventy guineas, and humid